International Consumer Policy

a country can import a product from another country where it is sold at a lower price without permission of the patent holder (e.g., South Africa buys AIDS drugs from India or Brazil where they are produced cheaply as generics)

Nearly __% of the world's 1 billion smokers live in low and middle income countries

What year was the Berlin wall erected? JFK's speech was two years latter.....

Which Russian president led a resistance against the non-violent coup d'etat and helped to restore Gorbachev to the Soviet Presidency and backed his polices

How many countries now require the use of Cigarette Warnings and labels on the cigarette packages?

What day of the year marks the World no Tobacco Day? Highlighting the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective polices to reduce tobacco?

The country that is the most lenient when it comes to drug licenses and compulsory licensing...

Accessible but costly, Accessible but inconvenient, Unsustainable withdrawals, Global Warming, Sanitation, are all remaining water problems but how many people are without clean drinking water?

What are the two Barriers to Anti-Smoking Efforts?

Run by WHO, First published in 1977, updated every few years, Contains 300+ drugs, Individual National may add or subtract from it, What is this list?

In the 2011 WHO Alcohol Consumption rating with Russia ranking #4 what country was the overall #1 ranking?

With Serbia, and Bulgaria coming in 2nd and 3rd, What country comes in first in the number of cigarettes per adult smoked per year at 2,995 cigarettes?

In 1980 what was the first country to establish the first private consumer organization in Central Eastern Europe.

The Millennium Goals were established by which of the following organizations:

What event in 1998 occurred in Russia that led to a global financial crisis?`

What is the world's most polluted city?

What practice did we describe as "self-defeating" when it comes to obtaining drinking water in LDCs?

In 2006, Russia's national fertility rate was estimated at ___ percent nationwide, far below the __ percent necessary to maintain a population at it's current size

What does BRIC stand for?

Which of the following is an example of a “positive list”?

Robert Broadhead's Presentation: Peer Driven Interventions to prevent HIV among Injection Drug Users: Used Bio-Metric Identifiers for those who returned, Used Chain Referral Model through referrals, Received Nominal monetary rewards, relied on referrals and coupons.

With Mexico, and Saudi Arabia coming in at 69% of adults being overweight. What country boasts the #1 spot of % of adults overweight?

The International Framework Convention on Tobacco Control requires/encourages countries to do all of the following EXCEPT:

WHO: In 2014, 39% (1.9 billion) of adults aged 18+ were overweight, a third of whom were overweight, including 600 million obese

a country can force a patent holder‐‐ under certain conditions ‐‐ to grant a production license to a domestic company

While referring to the relatively poor countries in the world as “less developed nations” (LDCs) is diplomatic, the MAJOR problem with this phrase is that it ignores:

This ______-tainted milk made 300,000 people and children suffer from kidney stones in Beijing 2008

How many major goals were mentioned in the U.N Millennium Development Goals? and what year were they adopted?

Which country boast the highest gini coesficient in income equality with a total of 58.5? Followed by Thailand, and Brazil?

Barriers to movement consist of: Lack of faith in firms or government, lack of financial resources, little tradition of civic engagement, and _________

$____ (PPP) Per Person, Per Day= Extreme Poverty, where as $2.00 (PPP) Per Person, Per Day= Poverty

“In ______, Africa’s largest market for medicines, a survey by WHO in 2011 found that ___% of antimalarial drugs were fake.”

a campaign of political openness in which citizens were granted greater freedom of speech (especially to criticize the political bureaucracy) and freedom of movement

Under the Business Characteristics for Prices/Profit Basis what are the answers for LDC and MDC?

What is the only country were the rate among women at 14.3% exceeds that among men at 12.5%?

A Term used in the Soviet Union to denote the use of informal agreements, mutual favors, communist party contacts, or black market deals to achieve results or get ahead

“__% of road traffic deaths occur in low- and middle- income countries, yet these countries have just 54% of the world’s vehicles”

Discovering and marketing a genuinely new drug costs is hugely expensive (as much as $___ billion by some estimates).

According to the World Bank, about ___% of the world's people lived below the internationally defined poverty line of less then US$2.00 a day in 2005?

Tobacco kills around 6 million people each year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the direct results of tobacco use while more than 600K are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second hand smoke

An Effort begun in 1987 to restructure and stimulate the Soviet economy by reducing government control, allowing private ownership of companies.